Sean Kenyon has issued the very last call for entries in the Colorado Cocktail Contest: Your entry must be received at bartender@westword.com no later than midnight tonight. Once again, the rules: * The base spirit (at least half of the spirit in the cocktail) must be a Colorado spirit –…
Because Denver doesn’t have enough burger fortresses to satiate a city of burger maniacs, we’re soon getting another one: Five Star Burgers, a Taos, New Mexico-based burger barn, with an additional location in Albuquerque, is adding a third outpost in Denver, which will open in May at the Streets at…
Lard, have mercy on my soul. To say that I pigged out this weekend is the understatement of the year, and if I was porky before, you should see me now. In fact, I’m fairly certain that I single-handedly took “hog wild” to a whole new level of oink. And…
Like many other Colorado craft brewers, Boulder’s Upslope Brewing has grown exponentially over the past year. And so Upslope has shut down its tasting room for the next three weeks so that it can knock out walls and expand into space next door. When it reopens on April 26, the…
We’ve been seeing tantalizing Facebook updates and tweets from CAUTION: Brewing Co. for a couple of months now, as Danny Wang and his partner, Betty Fey, revived the Odell Brewing’s old five-barrel system and did some dry runs on the equipment, testing it out. This past Sunday, though, the brewery…
There are dozens of wine events taking place this week — which you can finish off with a brewski at Breckenridge’s annual Beer Festival. Here’s a taste of what’s ahead:…
It’s spring and love is in the air, as is the smell of grilled meat…
I spent the majority of the weekend feasting on swine, but in between drinking shots from femur bones and getting my fill of blood sausage and chicharrónes, I managed to down a bowl of lamb tongue soup. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
We tasted a lot of house margaritas in preparation for our Best of Denver 2011 issue, and the marg at El Camino was hands down the Best House Margarita, as well as one of the most simple, true to the classic roots of this Mexican cocktail. At most American Mexican…
Until fairly recently, we were big fans of online dating websites, racing off to meet perfect strangers several nights a week, making new friends, making out a little, maybe even finding someone we’d like to date. It didn’t take long for us to become strategic about our rendezvous locations, developing…
Last week Cafe Society served up four regular Guess Where contests (as well as one tax-return special), featuring everything from a diet-busting plate of breakfast tacos to more eggs, this time deviled, to an unexpected pear and goat cheese salad at a pizza place. For correctly identifying it as coming…
Because Encore, which pours the town’s Best Martini, went on spring break the week it won that Best of Denver 2011 award, Laura Shunk served up four more of the town’s best martinis. Which prompted this response from eldaveablo: No love for Herb’s Hideout? Love the martinis there. It’s been…
Jax Fish House will present the Renegade Genius Wine Dinner at 7:30 p.m. tonight, when Abe Schoener will join forces with chef Sheila Lucero for a three-course wine dinner with six selections from the Scholium Project. Tickets are $65 each; call 303-292-5767 or go to www.jaxfishhousedenver.com. For information on dozens…
“I have heard,” writes Noel Cunningham, “that I have the best French toast in town. I’m not sure if you knew that or not, but that’s the word.” Cunningham, the chef/owner of Strings, will put his money where his mouth is tomorrow morning, when he offers free French toast to…
I had every intention of starting the morning off healthy — with Greek yogurt and a jog around the park — but then a trio of soft corn tacos, studded with chorizo, scrambled eggs, avocado, cheese and a duo of salsas, swayed me in a different direction. Can you guess…
Happy Place: Forest Room 5, 2532 Fifteenth Street, 303-433-7001 The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $2-3 beer; $5 wine and sangria; $5-6 specialty cocktails; $5-8 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Craft brewers and craft beer fans have a particular fondness for April’s Fool Day. Here are some of the good jokes we’ve seen so far. From CraftCans.com When [Oskar Blues’s] newest offering, Twen Teny Triple Imperial Stout, hits shelves it will be far and away the strongest canned beer in…
Four years ago, Susan Feniger, Food Network personality, star chef, restaurateur, a leading authority on Latin cuisine and proponent of street food, was in Denver bumping around downtown during the Parade of Lights, when the scent of sausages lured her to Biker Jim’s hot dog cart on the 16th Street…
Oh. My. God. We just heard that Tyler Wiard (Elway’s Cherry Creek), Elise Wiggins (Panzano) and Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Bistro Vendome and Euclid Hall) are joining forces with a national “roast beef” sandwich chain to create a new sandwich that’ll be called “The Big TyWigSki.” “I’m looking forward to working…
Kelly Floyd has been dreaming for seven years about opening a brewery. Today, she will unveil her dream, the Arvada Beer Company, and show off the work that has been done inside the building in Olde Town Arvada where she will open in June. “I love the beer industry. It’s…
When Laura Rice and Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg started hawking sexed up versions of global street food last year from their tricked-out Airstream trailer in Boulder , they had plans to take their concept national. “Street food is the next fastcasual,” Rice told us at the time…
Last summer, Denver’s Sean Kenyon was named Bartender of the Year by Domaine de Canton after he bested a handful of his peers from across the country in the final competition in St. Maarten — and he took home a $10,000 check for his work, too. This year, Noah Heaney…
